Thee Official PIRATE Thread - Beyond Tiki

B Bellamy Member Joined: Oct 16, 2013 Posts: 8	B Bellamy Posted posted on Wed, Oct 16, 2013 8:50 PM What do Tikis, Pirates, and the Haunted Mansion have in common? By a bizarre coincidence, ME! My brother, Dan Cunningham, is a guest singer at the world famous Mai Kai in Ft. Lauderdale (http://dancunningham.weebly.com/dans-photo-gallery.html), as well as the creator of SHADOW OF THE TIKI as a Shadowbox and graphic artist - some of his art sells at the Mai Kai (http://dancunningham.weebly.com/shadow-of-the-tiki.html). Additionally, I am the Docent of the Whydah Pirate Museum, which exhibits the artifacts and treasures of the world's only authenticated pirate shipwreck (www.Whydah.com). Our National Geographic REAL PIRATES traveling exhibition, devoted exclusively to Whydah artifacts is currently at Union Station Museum in Kansas City until January 2014, and then it will move to San Diego in February. We also have a small exhibit at FOXWOODS in Connecticut. And of course, our main exhibit - Whydah Pirate Museum - with more than 500 artifacts and treasures is in Provincetown on Cape Cod (we've closed for the season and will reopen in Spring). PS... it's pronounced "wi-duh", not "why-duh", just in case you were wondering. The Whydah was an English slave ship named for the African Kingdom of Whydah (there are more than a dozen spellings of it including Xweda, Juda, Ouidah, and Widaw - the spelling depended on who was writing it), which in turn was named for the beautiful Whydah Bird of Paradise. And I am also the founder of the Haunted Mansion Fan Club (www.HauntedMansionFanClub.com), and author of the novel Legend of the Haunted Mansion (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-legend-of-the-haunted-mansion-james-cunningham/1111781831?ean=9781477642740). . The Disneyland Haunted Mansion was modeled after the Lydecker-Shipley Mansion in Baltimore (Isabel Shipley Cunningham, whose family owned the mansion, is my cousin). The ghost ship is one of my favorite Haunted Mansion changing portraits. I just had to say something. What are the odds of all three being the subject of this thread - which I found completely by accident! LOL. [ Edited by: Bellamy 2013-10-16 22:23 ]

What do Tikis, Pirates, and the Haunted Mansion have in common?
By a bizarre coincidence, ME!

My brother, Dan Cunningham, is a guest singer at the world famous Mai Kai in Ft. Lauderdale (http://dancunningham.weebly.com/dans-photo-gallery.html), as well as the creator of SHADOW OF THE TIKI as a Shadowbox and graphic artist - some of his art sells at the Mai Kai (http://dancunningham.weebly.com/shadow-of-the-tiki.html).

Additionally, I am the Docent of the Whydah Pirate Museum, which exhibits the artifacts and treasures of the world's only authenticated pirate shipwreck (www.Whydah.com). Our National Geographic REAL PIRATES traveling exhibition, devoted exclusively to Whydah artifacts is currently at Union Station Museum in Kansas City until January 2014, and then it will move to San Diego in February. We also have a small exhibit at FOXWOODS in Connecticut. And of course, our main exhibit - Whydah Pirate Museum - with more than 500 artifacts and treasures is in Provincetown on Cape Cod (we've closed for the season and will reopen in Spring). PS... it's pronounced "wi-duh", not "why-duh", just in case you were wondering. The Whydah was an English slave ship named for the African Kingdom of Whydah (there are more than a dozen spellings of it including Xweda, Juda, Ouidah, and Widaw - the spelling depended on who was writing it), which in turn was named for the beautiful Whydah Bird of Paradise.

And I am also the founder of the Haunted Mansion Fan Club (www.HauntedMansionFanClub.com), and author of the novel Legend of the Haunted Mansion (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-legend-of-the-haunted-mansion-james-cunningham/1111781831?ean=9781477642740).
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The Disneyland Haunted Mansion was modeled after the Lydecker-Shipley Mansion in Baltimore (Isabel Shipley Cunningham, whose family owned the mansion, is my cousin). The ghost ship is one of my favorite Haunted Mansion changing portraits.

I just had to say something. What are the odds of all three being the subject of this thread - which I found completely by accident! LOL.

[ Edited by: Bellamy 2013-10-16 22:23 ]

Post #696500 by Bellamy on Wed, Oct 16, 2013 8:50 PM